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Where to Find More Information
You can find more information about mail service in books and on the Internet.
Books
For general information about mail protocols and other technologies, see these books:
• A good all-around introduction to mail service can be found in Internet Messaging, by
David Strom and Marshall T. Rose (Prentice Hall, 1998).
• For more information on MX records, see “DNS and Electronic Mail” in DNS and BIND,
3rd edition, by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu, and Mike Loukides (O’Reilly and Associates,
1998).
• Also of interest may be Removing the Spam: Email Processing and Filtering, by Geoff
Mulligan (Addison-Wesley Networking Basics Series, 1999).
• To learn about email standards, see Essential E-Mail Standards: RFCs and Protocols
Made Practical, by Pete Loshin (John Wiley & Sons, 1999).
• To learn more about Postfix, see Postfix, by Richard Blum (Sams; 1st edition, 2001)
• To learn more about Cyrus, see Managing IMAP, by Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet
(O'Reilly & Associates, 2000)
Internet
There is an abundance of information about the different mail protocols, DNS, and
other related topics on the Internet.
Request for Comments (RFC) documents provide an overview of a protocol or service
and details about how the protocol should behave. If you are a novice server
administrator, you may find some of the RFC background information helpful. If you are
an experienced server administrator, you will find all the technical details about a
protocol in its RFC document. You can search for RFC documents by number at this
web site:
www.faqs.org/rfcs
For technical details about how mail protocols work, see these RFC documents:
• POP: RFC 1725
• IMAP: RFC 2060
• SMTP: RFC 821 and RFC 822
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